Rick Talbot: when I read your mention of "Chamber pots" I laughed out  
loud--I had the same thought. Three sinks, two toilets and two showers for that  
entire hallway, Did you find the "Pantry" down the hall? It had facilities 
to  hand wash your clothes, with a slick 1920s drop-down drain board. And a 
single  microwave. . . In my room, the magazine rack in the desk chair 
back...the  desk itself. I loved it's Early 20th Century American ambiance--for 
my  few nights, but for School Year? What surprised me, aside from one young  
lady at registration happily telling me it was "her" dorm last year, was 
the  lack of any indication students had ever made my room a "Dorm Room" with 
the  hype that modern decor is given in the mail-order catalogs my  
granddaughter received this year. No sign of holes in the wall for  thumbtacked-up 
pictures, etc. Heck, I remember in the '50s my roommate and I  painted our 
dorm room walls at Hamline because the color was just too neutral.  My dorm 
room at Elmira was an amazing step back in time! Appropriate to thinking  of 
life in Twain's time, No regrets though--I'd go back for a conference there  
anytime. And I might indeed pack a chamber pot. . . .Bob Stewart
 
 
In a message dated 9/13/2013 9:49:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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I viewed  with amazement the lavatory facilities at the "dormitory." I was 
in
the  "the other dormitory" and for the life of me I can't recall such
plumbing.  Others were there with me. Some of us contemplated chamber pots.
"Henry?  Tracy? Anybody? Do you want to chime in here?

Richard Talbot
1531  West Idaho Avenue
Falcon Heights, MN 55108-2118
(651) 646-6624
(651)  280 8734
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Subject: Re: Photo gallery: Supplemental Scenes from the  2013 Elmira
Conference

Correction: the direct link turned out to be  a road to nowhere due to typo.
The link below should do the trick.--Kevin  B.

The direct link to the photo gallery  is:

http://www.twainweb.net/gifs/Elmira_2013/elmira2013m.html

or  visit the Twainweb home page at www.twainweb.net

Kevin  B.